Polyphonic Spree turns to Kickstarter to raise $100,000 to mix a live record, finish concert doc, make a studio album and hit the road

Woke up this morning to find several emails in the inbox concerning Tim DeLaughter’s virtual panhandling via Kickstarter, where the Polyphonic Spree frontman’s asking for six figures’ worth of contributions to finish myriad projects. Which only goes to show you: It ain’t cheap being in a band these days, especially if your band is larger than some small countries’ armies. That’s the price you pay for being what DeLaughter calls the “first-ever choral-symphonic rock band” and “touring and surviving as a group,” no easy feat a dozen years into the band’s existence.

Hence the need for $100,000, which DeLaughter and the band need to wrap up a live album recorded at Webster Hall in New York City on May 23, 2012; a concert doc shot at the same time; a new studio record; then hit the road.

In return for your contributions, you can get, oh, everything from signed DVDs to a phone call from Tim to an onstage shout-out to an autographed robe to a day in the studio with the band. The higher the donation, the bigger the prize: For $2,000 your band can open for the Spree; for $2,500 you can go to a Texas Rangers game with the Spree (tix included!); for $10,000 DeLaughter will write a song about you or you can get the band to play your living room. And, if you can fit the Spree in your living room, $10,000 is probably pocket change.

So go already — enjoy the Kickstarter page, which is generous loaded with audio and video goodies like the history-of you see above, which opens on a sunny Greenville Avenue afternoon …

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